copyright and contracts
An online session with Alex Adsett
About Alex
Alex Adsett is a literary agent and publishing consultant, who has been working in the publishing and bookselling industry for more than twenty years. She has managed Alex Adsett Publishing Services since 2008. As a consultant, Alex provides commercial and strategic advice to authors and independent publishers, particularly regarding publishing contracts.
She has worked with many publishers including Editia, Sleepers, University of Queensland Press, Australian Society of Authors, and the Copyright Agency, and hundreds of authors including Melissa Lucashenko, Graeme Simsion, Isobelle Carmody, Barry Humphries, and Kylie Chan. Alex regularly delivers seminars on copyright and publishing contracts around Australia, and has served on various NFP literary boards including Small Press Network and Queensland Writers Centre.
Having started her bookselling career at Pulp Fiction Bookshop in Brisbane, Alex moved to Murder One bookstore in London, UK, followed by more than two years working for Simon and Schuster UK. On returning to Australia, she spent three years in her dream job as part of the Rights and Contracts Department of Penguin Books in Melbourne, before moving to the Contracts Department of John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
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